All the North American Holidays together "would be" 3 solid months? Haven't been to Louisiana have you. Thanksgiving rolls into Christmas, which rolls into New Years Which kicks off the weeks long Mardi Gras season, ending in late February or March. And then you pay for it with Lent.
Thanksgiving is also a celebration of glutney. Oh, don't forget to warm up that pecan pie and them put a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top to cut the sweetness of the pecan pie.
I’m thankful to have co-starred in the film “planes Trains and Automobiles “. It was the only big movie I was in during my youthful acting days , and it’s gratifying to see it turned into a cult classic and tradition for so many people. ( LulieNewcomb, playing “Owen’s Wife) . So happy it means something special to you, Lawrence!
I saw Steve Martin on the opposite El platform at LaSalle Street station the Sunday they shot the scenes in Chicago. I was heading to work and obviously he was shooting.
I am thankful for a really good video about Thanksgiving. One of my ancestors was William Brewster, so gave the first Thanksgiving prayer in the Plymouth Colony.
The lack of pressure, as you point out, is exactly why Thanksgiving is the best holiday. No commercials, no greed, just friends, family, and a good meal.
The night before Thanksgiving is the night when the majority of people go out and drink. There are more people out drinking the night before Thanksgiving than there are on new year's even😅
I'm thankful for a cool brit who moved to the US, married an awesome American, and created a very funny TH-cam channel. Bonus points for featuring you dogo and catty.
Usually stuffing would be the same as dressing… Same ingredients… But stuffing would be if it was cooked in the turkey.. that's what people say. Dressing would be if you took the same ingredients and cooked it outside the turkey.
It's true, though also back in New England we'd also have a casserole of stuffing in the oven to be cooked and have some of the turkey drippings added as those appeared, so 'extra stuffing.' Important to get the balance with gravy quantities right. Down South they make 'dressing' which often comes out rather pudding-like rather than fluffy, bready, or crunchy.
@@vahi37I make mine with white bread, corn bread and croutons. And yes it’s more pudding like or as we southerners say, it’s moist and “set.” And you better make a lot of it too lol🤗❤️🐝
I'm glad that you recognize that John Candy was indeed, a legend. I grew up in the early 90s and saw almost all of his movies before his untimely passing. I saw them all on TBS or TNT, back when those networks used to show some of the best movies (with the profanity, edited out, of course). I was a big fan of the animated series, Camp Candy, and I was a mere 8-9 years old, when he passed but I was aware of it at the time and was saddened, even then, by his death. He brought so much to every one of his roles, such humility and humor - he has been sorely missed and not forgotten.
Tisquantum was kidnapped by the British, and sold as a slave in Spain, where he learned Spanish. He managed to get to England and learned English. A ship was heading to across the ocean, so he hopped on board. He made his way home and found everyone had died from a pox. So he made his way North. He addressed the Pilgrims in English and showed them how to farm. Eventually, he went to London and died some time later of disease, because it was London in the 1600s.
This is particularly important because the pilgrims were both unprepared for and not very skilled at the kind of farming you need to do to survive the massachusetts winter, so it's very much "Giving thanks that we have enough food to not all die." (Thanks to the natives' help)
I was just explaining to a Bangladeshi colleague what Thanksgiving was like as an immigrant from Australia, and I told him "It has kind of replaced Easter for me since moving from Australia, Easter being an Autumn holiday down there. It’s also like an Australian Christmas because it’s when the whole family gets together for a feast."
I dated a lady in Canada. She invited me to her Thanksgiving family gathering. I let my mom know I wouldn't be at her house for Thanksgiving. Plenty of notice, early October. I get a call a week later, and the lady is worried sick. I explained that I was getting ready to have dinner and everything was fine. That's when I learned Canada has a different date for Thanksgiving.
I am thankful to be an American. I'm thankful to have shelter and the other necessities of life. I'm thankful for my family and I'm thankful that I've had more years than my parents did. I'm thankful for this wonderful land I call home.
John Candy was phenomenal. "Wagons East" was his last film that they managed to complete after his passing, and while I remember bits of it and remember that it felt a bit lacking compared to some of his other works, it was still pretty funny. His bit in Home Alone was a treat and I'm sure it was a homage to P,T,&A.
@@chrismaverick9828 "He was there in the funeral parlor all day .... but he was alright after six or seven weeks when he came to and started talking again." Just pure comedy gold.
I'm from Philly & my ex wife is from North Carolina. North & South all mixed up. Our 1st Thanksgiving we visited up North with my relatives. At the bountiful table my wife asked my aunt to "pass the dressing." Everyone paused confused. Finally one of my great aunts told her, "Dear, we don't have salad." Which was funny of course. After the confusion we learned that in the South, stuffing is often called "dressing" - as in Turkey dressing.
Ultimately what I like best about Thanksgiving is it’s just a chance to see aunt and uncles, cousins, various family friends. It’s exactly as you said in your video, there’s very little pressure. There’s very little commercialism. It’s just a great day to be with the people who matter to you.
It’s a thankfulness for all your blessings, friends, love, children and other family, health, your home, and just being together. A good harvest for a farmer. A new job for someone who lost theirs, surviving an illness or car wreck.
My Thanksgivings are a little smaller. Usually, there are 8-10 people: myself, my brother, my parents, my four grandparents, and possibly my youngest uncle (he’s half a year older than my dad) and his wife. Thanksgiving is wonderful because the four of us (myself, my brother, and my parents) start out by watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, followed by the much-more-anticipated National Dog Show in Philadelphia (even though we’re a thousand miles away in Minnesota). Afterward, we have our meal, and spend a lot of time talking to each other. Good times.
I wonder if Laurence has watched the parade? It was a tradition in my house as well. One of my few regrets in life was that in my first years out here on the East Coast, a friend who worked for an entertainment publication in New York City had the option of being a balloon Wrangler at the parade, and she had me fill out the forms for security as well. Then she chickened out because she had a bad knee, and she wasn't sure if she could walk the three miles required.I'm still bummed out
We never said grace at Thanksgiving dinner. Except one time when my grandmother said, "we should say grace," and looked at my grandfather at the head of the table. He said, "hot food, good meat, hot damn let's eat!" then began digging in. It was the one and only time saying grace was brought up.
I remember when we used to get loads of snow right around Thanksgiving. Haven't seen a heavy snow storm in awhile, hope the Chicago wind hasn't frozen you yet 🤣
I am thankful for: having fingers and toes; the gifts of taste, sight, hearing, touch (texture, heat/cold, etc.); food, clothing, shelter; family and friends, my church’s free community Thanksgiving dinner; the gift of writing and the opportunities to use it to bless/encourage others; health.
😅 I love how your cat is: Here. There. Not there. Passed out. Absent all together. Having that element in the video keeps it REAL; and that is what makes your channel unique and awesome.
5:06 - What the actual ... is that?!? Who puts cranberry (or, for the Brits, "cram-bree") sauce ON mashed potatoes?!? That's where the gravy goes! (Though the sprig of mint leaves is a nice touch.)
I do. I make 2 piles of mashed potatoes, topping one with gravy and the other with cranberry sauce. I always find myself preferring the cranned spuds. What can I say, I have a weird palate.
I absolutely adore your "dry English humour" I tend to have the same humor. I literally laugh out loud by myself watching you videos! I truly must go to England some day and pay my respects to our colonial homeland. Plus I heard you have a really big clock thing, and some guards that are not allowed to smile. I feel that i rarely smile unless I am watching your videos. The exotic appeal of England shouts to me from this Ohioan.
I had a set of 12th-great-grandparents who were present at the First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. Their names were William and Mary Brewster.
Thanksgiving is about religious freedom! Also, it’s a celebration of survival; having tried collective farming, William Bradford changed to a system that allowed the pilgrims to work for themselves and sell or barter the fruits of their labor…they flourished. And we thank Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe who played a significant role in establishing peaceful relations with the Pilgrims. Last, but not least…Squanto who spoke English and served as guide and interpreter. We have so much to be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🍽🍗🍁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We have actually been selling quite a bit of Mince Pie at Albertson's and here in Reseda/Los Angeles and since my family is Canadian I seem to be the only one who is aware of what it is.
My stomach did a slow backflip when you said "Oyster Dressing". I'm 64 years old, and I've never heard of it. Being born and raised almost as far west in the contiguous US as is possible, I'm not surprised.
I'd never seen it where I grew up in the northeast either, but it seems to be a particularly popular Thanksgiving staple in the midwest. My friend from Michigan brings a big casserole dish of her mother's oyster stuffing to our Thanksgiving every year, because she grew up with it and it just doesn't feel like Thanksgiving dinner to her without it. The couple of times we've had other midwesterners as guests, they all got very excited to see her oyster stuffing - it was a Thanksgiving staple in their houses growing up as well. The regional Thanksgiving item that I get all sad and mopey without are those little pearl onions. They were a holiday staple where I grew up -- always prominently displayed in supermarkets the week before Thanksgiving -- but sometimes they're very hard to find here on the west coast. Clearly they're not seen as a Thanksgiving Must Have in this part of the country like they are in the northeast.
I have cooked what seems like a thousand Thanksgiving dinners. Nowadays, my daughter and I go out for thanksgiving which we both really enjoy. I do usually find something to be thankful for.
Maybe consider the 2 of you handing out meals at a soup kitchen one year. It might be something different to try. I have been invited to friends' places plenty of times and done potluck dinners when I was in graduate school with my urban tribe, I have also gone out with friends to a restaurant. But I think most days I would feel guilty about that because it means that somebody has to be working in order for me to have Thanksgiving dinner.The volunteering is kind of a win win, even if the food isn't perfect. And having been on my own for many years since my divorce, I long ago learned to make whatever I want on Thanksgiving. I eat chicken, Turkey and fish all year long. On Thanksgiving, I might have a really great breakfast with something cheeky like bacon or ham, and then pick at baked brie and grapes all day while I read quietly. Or I might make something that I don't normally allow myself to make, hopefully with only a couple of servings so that I could be eating healthy again by Friday or Saturday. This year, I'm going to try duplicating those cute little corn cakes from Chevy's Fresh Mex that you used to get on the side, lerk risotto, and probably pork tenderloin. The truth is last year, I got a an invitation on Wednesday after I had already purchased things. Since I went out and got groceries today, I'm expecting the same thing to happen.😅
@@LindaC616 People working on restaurants are being paid! And the restaurants make more money to be able to keep people employed! FOOD manufacturers! Don't feel GUILTY about helping people LIVE! SOME workers do get holiday pay. I worked for the telephone company a million years ago as an operator. We had to work frequent holidays. My family just adjusted the hours of when we celebrated!
I'm thankful for the variety of reactionary content available on TH-cam because it reminds me of everything America has going for it. Thank you for your perspective.
What a ham. I mean cat. Both hams actually. 🤣 I'm thankful that I watched British TV shows for decades, and the British side of my ears heard you say "I want stuffing."
It is about being grateful, to be together with family and friends. The food is always the centerpiece and every ethic group has added their flavor to this once a year meal. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
The terms stuffing and dressing are synonyms in some households, however in culinary circles stuffing are made inside the bird and dressings are made outside the bird. The ingredients vary according traditional family recipe, ingredient availability, and talent. It is not unusual to have varied breads, shellfish, mussels, clams, meats, vegetables, mushrooms, spices, and other foods in both of these dishes. It takes considerable talent to make stuffing because the interior of the bird needs to reach a certain temperature to be safe, hence the safer method of making dressings.
We're celebrating Thanksgiving today because of work. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. May your day be filled with love, happiness and STUFFING!!! Most Americans don't realize that other countries don't celebrate the 4th of July or weep on April 15th.
Everyone's Mom makes the best Thanksgiving dinner. That's what is amazing about a Thanksgiving dinner. And seeing family one doesn't get to see often. But MY mom made the best dinner 😂
MY grandma made pretty awesome Thanksgiving dinners, but I think my aunt (my mom’s older sister) is trying to outdo her deceased mother; the food is superb! 🤤
I'm thankful for being reminded that my late grandma always used to make oyster dressing for many of my childhood to young adult Thanksgiving's. It was so good!
I will always miss John Candy--what a splendid, intelligent, charming, endearing, brilliant, talented dear, dear man. Uncle Buck, Only the Lonely, The Great Outdoors, Summer Rental, Vacation, Space Balls, Cool Runnings, Stripes, Armed and Dangerous, and more. I love how he played the hard-working, devoted family man, the husband and father who always put his family first. As a woman, I would love to have this big, protective teddy-bear of a man put his strong, loving arms around me.
I'm thankful that tomorrow is Thanksgiving Eve, and the day is full of cooking and baking ahead. Lots of champagne is required (by me) and I have my lovely grandchildren waiting for my royal presence at my daughter's farm on Thursday. (Ironically, my daughter and son-in-law purchased what was once a turkey farm. They do not have turkeys, but it's possible we may hear the faint calls of gobble-gobble if the wind is blowing ever so slightly.) From upstate New York - Happy Thanksgiving to all, and to all safe travels.
I give 'thanks' every day---but Thanksgiving holds so many special memories of laughter around the table with family. And yes, favorite foods we really only eat once, maybe twice a year.
What a lovely video. I'm American, and Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, for all the reasons you mentioned. And I have a special place in my heart for Canadian Thanksgiving - has to do with my mom - so thanks for mentioning that. What genius it was to mention the connection to Trains, Planes, and Automobiles! Why do they not play that movie on teevee over Thanksgiving weekend? I may have to find it this year and enjoy it anew. Hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving holiday!
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Having had grown my own food for years makes it oh so nice to get the apples out of storage and make an apple pie, bake the acorn squash, put on a pot of corn from the freezer, open a can of my own green beans. I even used to make my own cider and used my pumpkins from the garden to make an over 100 year pumpkin pie recipe. Yes, we would slaughter our own turkeys. One time the Tom turkey was so large we had to saw the turkey in half and cook 1 half at a time. I was surprised that that really large, bird was so tender. Nothing like growing your own food. The best of ALL was thanking God for ALL he had done for us.
I'm thankful for a nation where I can still go to church and give thanks to the Lord for all His blessings. And thank you also, Laurence, for this channel.
Laurence you make me more thankful for being an American -- it's nice to see our country through the positive eyes of a British-American. So many people from Europe and other places like to dog and criticize the USA and its people mercilessly without trying to understand both their world-view and the immensity of size and population that is our country. I always say after India and China we have the largest population of any country in the world so people should expect there will be that many more problems. People don't take that into account and then judge our country unfairly. You never do this -- thank you.
I think it’s super weird that Brits eat turkey on Christmas. We have turkey on thanksgiving because it’s native to North America. We traditionally do ham on Christmas
We watch PT&A every year on Thanksgiving! ❤ As a Canadian-American, I want to thank you for the respect with which you spoke of Sir John Candy. 🙏 The Thanksgiving tradition in our house, in lieu of grace, is to take turns around the table with everyone sharing what they are most thankful for that year.
I have very few rellies so all the big feasts I have attended were the families of friends. I found myself at a Midwestern Jones family reunion. It was winter, there were a half-dozen houses involved and there was a major meal every half hour. We drove from one to house to another and ate all day and night. That was it. Nice finished basements, full size bars in most, even dart boards!
They’re not, though they do look similar. The biggest difference is the Home Alone house is symmetrical while the PTA home is not. The PTA house is in Kenilworth, Illinois while the Home Alone house is a little over 2 miles away in Winnetka.
A llittle bit of movie trivia fior you: The winter driving scene in "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" was actually filmed during the summer in central California. They made wooden 'pile of snow' shapes painted white and installed them in the median of State Route 198 between the city of Lemoore and Naval Air Station Lemoore. After a few weeks, the shapes got dirty enough to look at night like they were piles of snow cleared off the road. So, there they were, wearing heavy winter coats in the middle of a hot California summer to film a winter scene.
Such a great movie! Thanksgiving for me is having family over for dinner 🦃 every year I seem to find someone who has nowhere to go, this year the man in the meat department who had a bad diagnosis with his eyes going blind he has no family, he will be joining us, the cashier told me she will be eating alone, I told her not this year. To me this is what Thanksgiving is all about, sharing love with family and new friends
I'm really thankful I don't have to cook this year. I always cook. Still hosting and eating which is the more fun part. I love how stuffing can be so different from region to region and family to family. Happy Turkey Day Lawrence.
I’m doing a small version of Thanksgiving this year, but we’ll still have leftovers and it’s the best meal of the whole year!!!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!!🦃🍁🍽
i go to the mission for Thanksgiving. They have a real nice meal. Turkey, stuffing and macaroni. It reminds me of when I was younger and had a family. They let you take an apple afterwards for the next day. It is a nice day.
Thankfully I always enjoy your brand of humor, especially your cat's "Look at my bum", moment at 7:20, you are a great team - what a bonus. Thanks for the other information too. Lol.
Ooh Lawrence. Did you know that stuffing was originally meant to be "Stuffed" into the inner cavity of a turkey carcass, so taht when the turkey was roasted, the stuffing added flavor to the turkey meat. Late in the meal, after the family and friends gathered had mostly devoured the 2nd roasted turkey, Uncle Ernie is said to have said "Hey, I'm still a bit peckish. I'm gonna try some of that stuffing from inside the turkey and see if it tastes any good." Prior to that, stuffing was considered a flavorant, like a bay leaf, that one, or two, tossed into the trash after it had served its tour of duty inside the turkey. Now, even though it has been deemed medically dangerous to cook inside the bird, stuffing, now mostly cooked in a casserole dish, has become another thanksgiving side dish, along side cranberry sauce, green beans with cream of mushroom soup and crunchy fried onions, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, pecan pie and pumpkin pie with whipped cream toipping, I'm sure glad they didn't run out of beer, or Uncle Ernie may have decided to drink the dishwater and we'd all be swearing that was a traditional beverage that the Native Americans shared with the Pilgrims.
It only became 'dangerous' to cook stuffing inside the bird around the 80's. It was because that was when many families were no longer living in the same community but had spread out over the US which resulted in many travelling for Thanksgiving with most only staying the one day. That added to the pressure of having the meal ready by a specified time so people could still travel hours to get home afterwards resulted in many undercooked turkeys which in turn resulted in the stuffing giving people salmonella poisoning. It is also the decade that frozen turkeys became ubiquitous resulting in people undercooking it as well. So when that started to become a problem the government overreacted, which it always does, and told people that it was 'medically dangerous' to eat the stuffing from inside the turkey without explaining why. I and my family have eaten the stuffing from the bird (my favorite dish) all of my over fifty years and none of us have gotten sick because if the turkey isn't quite finished cooking on time we wait until it is before eating. There is absolutely no danger in eating stuffing from the bird if it has been properly cooked.
@@robo5013I remember when they came up with this. At the time they said the problem was making sure the turkey juuce in the stuffing reached a safe temperature and decided the most foolproof method was to tell everyone to cook the dressing separately. Considering how few Americans have meat thermometers they had a point.
@@Ciao_Bella It absolutely is. But sadly, even with a very large turkey, there's never quite enough stuffing from inside the bird to satisfy the large crowd we usually have over. So in our house, everyone who wants it gets their fair portion of the 'in the bird stuffing,' and then they can pad that out with as much not-from-the-bird stuffing as they like.
No.... That movie (planes, trains, and automobiles) was one of two movies my dad had at his house, the other was "the man with two brains", I watched them back to back to back, on the weekends, growing up 😂😂
Heading to north of Seattle to visit my relatives. There will be plenty: turkey, dressing, potatoes, graaaaavy, veggies, pickles, and cranberry sauce. May you and yourshave a safe and sane holiday!
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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday as an adult
All the North American Holidays together "would be" 3 solid months? Haven't been to Louisiana have you. Thanksgiving rolls into Christmas, which rolls into New Years Which kicks off the weeks long Mardi Gras season, ending in late February or March. And then you pay for it with Lent.
Thanksgiving is also a celebration of glutney.
Oh, don't forget to warm up that pecan pie and them put a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top to cut the sweetness of the pecan pie.
I’m thankful to have co-starred in the film “planes Trains and Automobiles “. It was the only big movie I was in during my youthful acting days , and it’s gratifying to see it turned into a cult classic and tradition for so many people. ( LulieNewcomb, playing “Owen’s Wife) . So happy it means something special to you, Lawrence!
I just watched it again awhile back. Great movie.
Special to so many of us! Happy Thanksgiving
Is it true you didn't scream when the baby came out sideways? Seriously though probably my favorite scene of the movie.
Want to help me move? Have some old heavy furniture that needs lifting.
I saw Steve Martin on the opposite El platform at LaSalle Street station the Sunday they shot the scenes in Chicago. I was heading to work and obviously he was shooting.
It was gracious of the cat to allow you to appear in his (her?) video.
His.
This had better be posted on The Whisker Reels
I am thankful for a really good video about Thanksgiving. One of my ancestors was William Brewster, so gave the first Thanksgiving prayer in the Plymouth Colony.
Go check again. 4:40 🤣🤣🤣
@@montyroach I loved the cat's ...pose ...and Lawrence's commentary during the pose. LOL
He states he.
The lack of pressure, as you point out, is exactly why Thanksgiving is the best holiday. No commercials, no greed, just friends, family, and a good meal.
The night before Thanksgiving is the night when the majority of people go out and drink. There are more people out drinking the night before Thanksgiving than there are on new year's even😅
Agreed, it's my favorite holiday. I know it can be stressful for others, but luckily my family keeps it pretty low stakes lol
@@LindaC616 The night before Christmas is the crazy Santa night in NYC isn't it? Another great drinking night. 😂
I mean, it would be nice if the TV were off.
"No commercials"?!? What rock are you living under? (Christmas shopping starts before Halloween)
I'm thankful for a cool brit who moved to the US, married an awesome American, and created a very funny TH-cam channel. Bonus points for featuring you dogo and catty.
I think the dog is Arthur. 🐾
@@lynemac2539 And what is the Kitty's name, (who so wonderfully catlike, showed us his its business end during the video! Typical Kat!!!
Let's ask Lawrence.
Lawrence, what is the name of your lovely cat?
I’m thankful we have Lawrence in the US.
Can we import more Lawrences from the U.K.? 🙂
I adore how your kitty was like, "Oh, are you filming?" Such a cute little stormcloud. 🙂
He can still clear the table easily.Kafka's in good shape
Ohh your talking? Here is my butt!
"Enjoy my anus."
The best part of this video is the teleporting cat. 😺
Redundant. All cats teleport.
Cat in, cat out
Canadian thanksgiving is earlier because it is further north and the harvest comes earlier
As a Hispanic American, I loved Thanksgiving because (afterward). My mom, and grandmothers would make turkey tamales!
Oo, that sounds really good.
WOW!! That sounds absolutely DELICIOUS!!
Turkey tamales? Dang, Now I'm hungry again.
What is a tamale?
Mmmmm....tamales.
Usually stuffing would be the same as dressing… Same ingredients… But stuffing would be if it was cooked in the turkey.. that's what people say. Dressing would be if you took the same ingredients and cooked it outside the turkey.
It's true, though also back in New England we'd also have a casserole of stuffing in the oven to be cooked and have some of the turkey drippings added as those appeared, so 'extra stuffing.' Important to get the balance with gravy quantities right. Down South they make 'dressing' which often comes out rather pudding-like rather than fluffy, bready, or crunchy.
@@OllamhDrab To me, dressing is much more grainy. Not as good as stuffing.
@@OllamhDrab And usually made of cornbread instead of white bread.
My family made dressing
@@vahi37I make mine with white bread, corn bread and croutons. And yes it’s more pudding like or as we southerners say, it’s moist and “set.” And you better make a lot of it too lol🤗❤️🐝
Yay someone from the states remembered 🇨🇦 Thanksgiving.
Well someone has to. Otherwise everyone else just forgets.
Guy on camera: Blah blah blah Thanksgiving.
My two brain cells: Kitty!
I'm glad that you recognize that John Candy was indeed, a legend. I grew up in the early 90s and saw almost all of his movies before his untimely passing. I saw them all on TBS or TNT, back when those networks used to show some of the best movies (with the profanity, edited out, of course). I was a big fan of the animated series, Camp Candy, and I was a mere 8-9 years old, when he passed but I was aware of it at the time and was saddened, even then, by his death. He brought so much to every one of his roles, such humility and humor - he has been sorely missed and not forgotten.
Tisquantum was kidnapped by the British, and sold as a slave in Spain, where he learned Spanish. He managed to get to England and learned English. A ship was heading to across the ocean, so he hopped on board. He made his way home and found everyone had died from a pox. So he made his way North. He addressed the Pilgrims in English and showed them how to farm. Eventually, he went to London and died some time later of disease, because it was London in the 1600s.
This is particularly important because the pilgrims were both unprepared for and not very skilled at the kind of farming you need to do to survive the massachusetts winter, so it's very much "Giving thanks that we have enough food to not all die." (Thanks to the natives' help)
I am thankful for the way you let your cat show his love for you in your videos. You are a true animal lover and I am thankful for that.
I was just explaining to a Bangladeshi colleague what Thanksgiving was like as an immigrant from Australia, and I told him "It has kind of replaced Easter for me since moving from Australia, Easter being an Autumn holiday down there. It’s also like an Australian Christmas because it’s when the whole family gets together for a feast."
This was an excellent cat video, and I guess the stuff about Thanksgiving was a nice touch
Love the way your cat kept appearing and disappearing and appearing again. 😻 Now what were you on about thanksgiving?
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I dated a lady in Canada. She invited me to her Thanksgiving family gathering.
I let my mom know I wouldn't be at her house for Thanksgiving. Plenty of notice, early October.
I get a call a week later, and the lady is worried sick. I explained that I was getting ready to have dinner and everything was fine. That's when I learned Canada has a different date for Thanksgiving.
I am thankful to be an American. I'm thankful to have shelter and the other necessities of life. I'm thankful for my family and I'm thankful that I've had more years than my parents did. I'm thankful for this wonderful land I call home.
"whatever the hell this travesty is from Target" maybe me laugh out loud! Thanks Laurence. Happy Thanksgiving!!
Planes Trains and Automobiles is the funniest movie that I have ever watched.
John Candy was phenomenal. "Wagons East" was his last film that they managed to complete after his passing, and while I remember bits of it and remember that it felt a bit lacking compared to some of his other works, it was still pretty funny. His bit in Home Alone was a treat and I'm sure it was a homage to P,T,&A.
@@chrismaverick9828 "He was there in the funeral parlor all day .... but he was alright after six or seven weeks when he came to and started talking again." Just pure comedy gold.
Those aren't pillows!
Very funny movie, and very heartwarming at the end. 😆😆😢
You NEED to watch, Strange Brew!
I'm from Philly & my ex wife is from North Carolina. North & South all mixed up. Our 1st Thanksgiving we visited up North with my relatives. At the bountiful table my wife asked my aunt to "pass the dressing." Everyone paused confused. Finally one of my great aunts told her, "Dear, we don't have salad." Which was funny of course. After the confusion we learned that in the South, stuffing is often called "dressing" - as in Turkey dressing.
Ultimately what I like best about Thanksgiving is it’s just a chance to see aunt and uncles, cousins, various family friends. It’s exactly as you said in your video, there’s very little pressure. There’s very little commercialism. It’s just a great day to be with the people who matter to you.
You can't be serious. We go straight from Halloween to aggressive Christmas commercials.
It’s a thankfulness for all your blessings, friends, love, children and other family, health, your home, and just being together. A good harvest for a farmer. A new job for someone who lost theirs, surviving an illness or car wreck.
My Thanksgivings are a little smaller. Usually, there are 8-10 people: myself, my brother, my parents, my four grandparents, and possibly my youngest uncle (he’s half a year older than my dad) and his wife. Thanksgiving is wonderful because the four of us (myself, my brother, and my parents) start out by watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, followed by the much-more-anticipated National Dog Show in Philadelphia (even though we’re a thousand miles away in Minnesota). Afterward, we have our meal, and spend a lot of time talking to each other. Good times.
I wonder if Laurence has watched the parade? It was a tradition in my house as well.
One of my few regrets in life was that in my first years out here on the East Coast, a friend who worked for an entertainment publication in New York City had the option of being a balloon Wrangler at the parade, and she had me fill out the forms for security as well. Then she chickened out because she had a bad knee, and she wasn't sure if she could walk the three miles required.I'm still bummed out
@@LindaC616
That would bum me out too!!
I love the Dog Show more than the parade. Unfortunately, the show usually comes on just as we are going to eat. It's rebroadcast thankfully.
We never said grace at Thanksgiving dinner. Except one time when my grandmother said, "we should say grace," and looked at my grandfather at the head of the table. He said, "hot food, good meat, hot damn let's eat!" then began digging in. It was the one and only time saying grace was brought up.
We were Catholic so we said “Father, Son and Holy Ghost, one that grabs fastest gets the most.”
We say grace at every meal together.
I am thankful for my family, a warm bed, hot showers,AND LAWRENCE! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone, and Lawrence & family!
"Let's say grace."
"Grace."
😂😂😂 that is gold... 👌
We have said that for 45 years. In-out-laws still not thrilled.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🦃🍽️🦃 TO YOU AND YOUR WIFE LAWRENCE, AND TO ALL WHO ARE WATCHING ❤!!!!
Why are you yelling?
I remember when we used to get loads of snow right around Thanksgiving. Haven't seen a heavy snow storm in awhile, hope the Chicago wind hasn't frozen you yet 🤣
smart move cats are very very flammable 2:13
They also have a tendancy to push stuff off the table.
I am thankful for: having fingers and toes; the gifts of taste, sight, hearing, touch (texture, heat/cold, etc.); food, clothing, shelter; family and friends, my church’s free community Thanksgiving dinner; the gift of writing and the opportunities to use it to bless/encourage others; health.
😅 I love how your cat is: Here. There. Not there. Passed out. Absent all together. Having that element in the video keeps it REAL; and that is what makes your channel unique and awesome.
Lovely to see your co-host is so interested in participating today.
Happy thanksgiving!!
Thanks!! Same for you!
5:06 - What the actual ... is that?!? Who puts cranberry (or, for the Brits, "cram-bree") sauce ON mashed potatoes?!? That's where the gravy goes! (Though the sprig of mint leaves is a nice touch.)
I do. I make 2 piles of mashed potatoes, topping one with gravy and the other with cranberry sauce. I always find myself preferring the cranned spuds. What can I say, I have a weird palate.
Guess I’m worse, I do both, cran AND gravy.
I use it to make the perfect bite.
HaHa - I took a second look, too. What? Is? That?
All goes to the same place mate.
I absolutely adore your "dry English humour" I tend to have the same humor. I literally laugh out loud by myself watching you videos! I truly must go to England some day and pay my respects to our colonial homeland. Plus I heard you have a really big clock thing, and some guards that are not allowed to smile. I feel that i rarely smile unless I am watching your videos. The exotic appeal of England shouts to me from this Ohioan.
thinking thanksgiving is just a word for Christmas is adorable
I had a set of 12th-great-grandparents who were present at the First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. Their names were William and Mary Brewster.
Howdy Pilgrim !
Alden (Mullins) and Bradford
@@shesintexas1198me too. Also Hopkins.
Have a great Thanksgiving everyone !
Thanks, NorthBay, you too!
You, too!
Thanksgiving is about religious freedom! Also, it’s a celebration of survival; having tried collective farming, William Bradford changed to a system that allowed the pilgrims to work for themselves and sell or barter the fruits of their labor…they flourished. And we thank Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe who played a significant role in establishing peaceful relations with the Pilgrims. Last, but not least…Squanto who spoke English and served as guide and interpreter. We have so much to be thankful for.
Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🍽🍗🍁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We have actually been selling quite a bit of Mince Pie at Albertson's and here in Reseda/Los Angeles and since my family is Canadian I seem to be the only one who is aware of what it is.
My stomach did a slow backflip when you said "Oyster Dressing". I'm 64 years old, and I've never heard of it. Being born and raised almost as far west in the contiguous US as is possible, I'm not surprised.
I'd never seen it where I grew up in the northeast either, but it seems to be a particularly popular Thanksgiving staple in the midwest. My friend from Michigan brings a big casserole dish of her mother's oyster stuffing to our Thanksgiving every year, because she grew up with it and it just doesn't feel like Thanksgiving dinner to her without it. The couple of times we've had other midwesterners as guests, they all got very excited to see her oyster stuffing - it was a Thanksgiving staple in their houses growing up as well.
The regional Thanksgiving item that I get all sad and mopey without are those little pearl onions. They were a holiday staple where I grew up -- always prominently displayed in supermarkets the week before Thanksgiving -- but sometimes they're very hard to find here on the west coast. Clearly they're not seen as a Thanksgiving Must Have in this part of the country like they are in the northeast.
All sorts of stuffings/ dressings. My sister said " turkey unites US, but stuffing defines us."
That is a beautiful cat! I love the color.
You named the dog Arthur. Because of course you did. Love it!
If you were expecting pickled margarine, well I can tell you we got rid of it right before you got to America
I have cooked what seems like a thousand Thanksgiving dinners. Nowadays, my daughter and I go out for thanksgiving which we both really enjoy. I do usually find something to be thankful for.
Maybe consider the 2 of you handing out meals at a soup kitchen one year. It might be something different to try. I have been invited to friends' places plenty of times and done potluck dinners when I was in graduate school with my urban tribe, I have also gone out with friends to a restaurant. But I think most days I would feel guilty about that because it means that somebody has to be working in order for me to have Thanksgiving dinner.The volunteering is kind of a win win, even if the food isn't perfect.
And having been on my own for many years since my divorce, I long ago learned to make whatever I want on Thanksgiving. I eat chicken, Turkey and fish all year long. On Thanksgiving, I might have a really great breakfast with something cheeky like bacon or ham, and then pick at baked brie and grapes all day while I read quietly. Or I might make something that I don't normally allow myself to make, hopefully with only a couple of servings so that I could be eating healthy again by Friday or Saturday. This year, I'm going to try duplicating those cute little corn cakes from Chevy's Fresh Mex that you used to get on the side, lerk risotto, and probably pork tenderloin. The truth is last year, I got a an invitation on Wednesday after I had already purchased things. Since I went out and got groceries today, I'm expecting the same thing to happen.😅
Since it's only my daughter, my mom & me, we go out to eat on Thanksgiving also. Much less stress...& leftovers.
@@LindaC616 People working on restaurants are being paid! And the restaurants make more money to be able to keep people employed! FOOD manufacturers! Don't feel GUILTY about helping people LIVE! SOME workers do get holiday pay. I worked for the telephone company a million years ago as an operator. We had to work frequent holidays. My family just adjusted the hours of when we celebrated!
I'm thankful for the variety of reactionary content available on TH-cam because it reminds me of everything America has going for it.
Thank you for your perspective.
What a ham. I mean cat. Both hams actually. 🤣 I'm thankful that I watched British TV shows for decades, and the British side of my ears heard you say "I want stuffing."
That clip of your dad at the end was touching.
Happy Thanksgiving
It is about being grateful, to be together with family and friends. The food is always the centerpiece and every ethic group has added their flavor to this once a year meal. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
The terms stuffing and dressing are synonyms in some households, however in culinary circles stuffing are made inside the bird and dressings are made outside the bird. The ingredients vary according traditional family recipe, ingredient availability, and talent. It is not unusual to have varied breads, shellfish, mussels, clams, meats, vegetables, mushrooms, spices, and other foods in both of these dishes. It takes considerable talent to make stuffing because the interior of the bird needs to reach a certain temperature to be safe, hence the safer method of making dressings.
We're celebrating Thanksgiving today because of work.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. May your day be filled with love, happiness and STUFFING!!!
Most Americans don't realize that other countries don't celebrate the 4th of July or weep on April 15th.
Thank you!! May yours as well !
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 no matter what day you celebrate it 🎉😊❤
I didn't realize that we Americans weep on April 15. Is it because the Titanic sank?
@@chitlitlahTax Day
Mexicans celebrate the 4th of July (Independence Day), they just do it on September 16th
Everyone's Mom makes the best Thanksgiving dinner. That's what is amazing about a Thanksgiving dinner. And seeing family one doesn't get to see often. But MY mom made the best dinner 😂
MY grandma made pretty awesome Thanksgiving dinners, but I think my aunt (my mom’s older sister) is trying to outdo her deceased mother; the food is superb! 🤤
I'm thankful for being reminded that my late grandma always used to make oyster dressing for many of my childhood to young adult Thanksgiving's. It was so good!
I will always miss John Candy--what a splendid, intelligent, charming, endearing, brilliant, talented dear, dear man. Uncle Buck, Only the Lonely, The Great Outdoors, Summer Rental, Vacation, Space Balls, Cool Runnings, Stripes, Armed and Dangerous, and more. I love how he played the hard-working, devoted family man, the husband and father who always put his family first. As a woman, I would love to have this big, protective teddy-bear of a man put his strong, loving arms around me.
I'm thankful that tomorrow is Thanksgiving Eve, and the day is full of cooking and baking ahead. Lots of champagne is required (by me) and I have my lovely grandchildren waiting for my royal presence at my daughter's farm on Thursday. (Ironically, my daughter and son-in-law purchased what was once a turkey farm. They do not have turkeys, but it's possible we may hear the faint calls of gobble-gobble if the wind is blowing ever so slightly.) From upstate New York - Happy Thanksgiving to all, and to all safe travels.
I give 'thanks' every day---but Thanksgiving holds so many special memories of laughter around the table with family. And yes, favorite foods we really only eat once, maybe twice a year.
I had to comeback and give a very enthusiastic thumbs up.
thanksgiving is the one 'holiday' that America should have given the world and that's a beautiful cat
Those aren't pillows!!!
What a lovely video. I'm American, and Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, for all the reasons you mentioned. And I have a special place in my heart for Canadian Thanksgiving - has to do with my mom - so thanks for mentioning that. What genius it was to mention the connection to Trains, Planes, and Automobiles! Why do they not play that movie on teevee over Thanksgiving weekend? I may have to find it this year and enjoy it anew. Hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving holiday!
Are you forgetting the Harvest Festival in October where the UK gives thanks for a bountiful harvest?
I have heard all my life from Brits: “oh, it’s just another patriots holiday in the US”. But I always knew the harvest holiday was a UK Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Having had grown my own food for years makes it oh so nice to get the apples out of storage and make an apple pie, bake the acorn squash, put on a pot of corn from the freezer, open a can of my own green beans. I even used to make my own cider and used my pumpkins from the garden to make an over 100 year pumpkin pie recipe. Yes, we would slaughter our own turkeys. One time the Tom turkey was so large we had to saw the turkey in half and cook 1 half at a time. I was surprised that that really large, bird was so tender. Nothing like growing your own food. The best of ALL was thanking God for ALL he had done for us.
the UK does have thanksgiving , But we call it Harvest festival. :-}
I'm thankful for a nation where I can still go to church and give thanks to the Lord for all His blessings. And thank you also, Laurence, for this channel.
10:21 Lawrence crossing into Tasting History territory.
Laurence you make me more thankful for being an American -- it's nice to see our country through the positive eyes of a British-American. So many people from Europe and other places like to dog and criticize the USA and its people mercilessly without trying to understand both their world-view and the immensity of size and population that is our country. I always say after India and China we have the largest population of any country in the world so people should expect there will be that many more problems. People don't take that into account and then judge our country unfairly. You never do this -- thank you.
I think it’s super weird that Brits eat turkey on Christmas. We have turkey on thanksgiving because it’s native to North America. We traditionally do ham on Christmas
I believe that the older Christmas dinner tradition in the UK was goose. Over time, though, that new world upstart turkey took its place.
We watch PT&A every year on Thanksgiving! ❤
As a Canadian-American, I want to thank you for the respect with which you spoke of Sir John Candy. 🙏
The Thanksgiving tradition in our house, in lieu of grace, is to take turns around the table with everyone sharing what they are most thankful for that year.
I have very few rellies so all the big feasts I have attended were the families of friends. I found myself at a Midwestern Jones family reunion. It was winter, there were a half-dozen houses involved and there was a major meal every half hour. We drove from one to house to another and ate all day and night. That was it. Nice finished basements, full size bars in most, even dart boards!
Traffic from NWI to Chicago and back was already pretty bad today. Never fails to be horrible on I-94 around Thanksgiving.
If you didn’t happen to notice, the house is the same in both PTA and Home Alone. Happy Thanksgiving!
They’re not, though they do look similar. The biggest difference is the Home Alone house is symmetrical while the PTA home is not. The PTA house is in Kenilworth, Illinois while the Home Alone house is a little over 2 miles away in Winnetka.
About two months ago the Home Alone house went up for sale. You can find the listing online and see how it differs from the movie house.
I was wondering about that. They do look similar.
Thanksgiving is warmup for Christmas. Planes Trains and Automobiles is one of my favorites. Happy Thanksgiving Lawrence and family.
A llittle bit of movie trivia fior you:
The winter driving scene in "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" was actually filmed during the summer in central California.
They made wooden 'pile of snow' shapes painted white and installed them in the median of State Route 198 between the city of Lemoore and Naval Air Station Lemoore.
After a few weeks, the shapes got dirty enough to look at night like they were piles of snow cleared off the road.
So, there they were, wearing heavy winter coats in the middle of a hot California summer to film a winter scene.
Thank you, Laurence. Have a good holiday.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles is the best!!! 🤣🤣🤣 You made me want to watch it now!!! 🧡🧡🧡
Such a great movie! Thanksgiving for me is having family over for dinner 🦃 every year I seem to find someone who has nowhere to go, this year the man in the meat department who had a bad diagnosis with his eyes going blind he has no family, he will be joining us, the cashier told me she will be eating alone, I told her not this year. To me this is what Thanksgiving is all about, sharing love with family and new friends
You've done quite well with the channel and I'm happy for you, I remember back when you just got started with it.
I am thankful for TH-cam for keeping me entertained in everyday life outside of my own.
It’s so wonderful to see your beautiful chocolate kitty in the video!!!
I'm really thankful I don't have to cook this year. I always cook. Still hosting and eating which is the more fun part. I love how stuffing can be so different from region to region and family to family. Happy Turkey Day Lawrence.
Hi Lawrence, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your wife.
Glad to see Kafka and Arthur; oh, and you too, Laurence. Happy Thanksgiving!
Some of my favorite childhood memories are Thanksgiving dinners at grandma's house. Family would come from across the nation.
I’m doing a small version of Thanksgiving this year, but we’ll still have leftovers and it’s the best meal of the whole year!!!!!
Happy Thanksgiving!!!🦃🍁🍽
I love watching the cuts to see where and what position the cat is going to be in. 😹
i go to the mission for Thanksgiving. They have a real nice meal. Turkey, stuffing and macaroni. It reminds me of when I was younger and had a family. They let you take an apple afterwards for the next day. It is a nice day.
Thankfully I always enjoy your brand of humor, especially your cat's "Look at my bum", moment at 7:20, you are a great team - what a bonus. Thanks for the other information too. Lol.
We'll laugh about this later! - this line has seen me through so many experiences.
As a Canadian 🇨🇦 I'm happy to be acknowledged 😊
Thanks for remembering us, Lawrence 👍
Who else thought about that seen in the movie Hook when Rufio says: “Everybody say grace! GRACE!” Lol
My Dad always said that, much to my mothers chagrin.
I immediately thought of Christmas Vacation where the senile grandmother recites the Pledge of Allegiance.
I think to "Christmas Vacation" with the Pledge of Allegiance.
@@TheLordOfNothing Grace?? She died 30 years ago!
@@StephenH1 It will forever be one of my favorite movies...
Ooh Lawrence. Did you know that stuffing was originally meant to be "Stuffed" into the inner cavity of a turkey carcass, so taht when the turkey was roasted, the stuffing added flavor to the turkey meat. Late in the meal, after the family and friends gathered had mostly devoured the 2nd roasted turkey, Uncle Ernie is said to have said "Hey, I'm still a bit peckish. I'm gonna try some of that stuffing from inside the turkey and see if it tastes any good." Prior to that, stuffing was considered a flavorant, like a bay leaf, that one, or two, tossed into the trash after it had served its tour of duty inside the turkey. Now, even though it has been deemed medically dangerous to cook inside the bird, stuffing, now mostly cooked in a casserole dish, has become another thanksgiving side dish, along side cranberry sauce, green beans with cream of mushroom soup and crunchy fried onions, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, pecan pie and pumpkin pie with whipped cream toipping, I'm sure glad they didn't run out of beer, or Uncle Ernie may have decided to drink the dishwater and we'd all be swearing that was a traditional beverage that the Native Americans shared with the Pilgrims.
It only became 'dangerous' to cook stuffing inside the bird around the 80's. It was because that was when many families were no longer living in the same community but had spread out over the US which resulted in many travelling for Thanksgiving with most only staying the one day. That added to the pressure of having the meal ready by a specified time so people could still travel hours to get home afterwards resulted in many undercooked turkeys which in turn resulted in the stuffing giving people salmonella poisoning. It is also the decade that frozen turkeys became ubiquitous resulting in people undercooking it as well. So when that started to become a problem the government overreacted, which it always does, and told people that it was 'medically dangerous' to eat the stuffing from inside the turkey without explaining why. I and my family have eaten the stuffing from the bird (my favorite dish) all of my over fifty years and none of us have gotten sick because if the turkey isn't quite finished cooking on time we wait until it is before eating. There is absolutely no danger in eating stuffing from the bird if it has been properly cooked.
@@robo5013I remember when they came up with this. At the time they said the problem was making sure the turkey juuce in the stuffing reached a safe temperature and decided the most foolproof method was to tell everyone to cook the dressing separately. Considering how few Americans have meat thermometers they had a point.
Unstuffed stuffing is inferior to stuffed stuffing.
@@Ciao_Bella It absolutely is. But sadly, even with a very large turkey, there's never quite enough stuffing from inside the bird to satisfy the large crowd we usually have over. So in our house, everyone who wants it gets their fair portion of the 'in the bird stuffing,' and then they can pad that out with as much not-from-the-bird stuffing as they like.
So, hope this helps: "stuffing" goes inside the bird, "dressing" is cooked outside the bird.
Laurence, don't forget to pet your cat! And, happy thanksgiving 🙂
No.... That movie (planes, trains, and automobiles) was one of two movies my dad had at his house, the other was "the man with two brains", I watched them back to back to back, on the weekends, growing up 😂😂
Merv Griffin!
"The Man with Two Brains" is very underrated.
I am thankful for 'lost in the pond' always brightening my day!!
Heading to north of Seattle to visit my relatives. There will be plenty: turkey, dressing, potatoes, graaaaavy, veggies, pickles, and cranberry sauce. May you and yourshave a safe and sane holiday!